Giorgio Tuma

GIORGIO TUMA and Laetitia Sadier: New collaboration "Release From The Centre Of Your Heart"

A few months ago, we mentioned a collaboration between Giorgio Tuma and former STEREOLAB singer Laetitia Sadier. The result was the delicious and delicate “Anna, My Dear,” a song that feels like magic, thanks to the special chemistry between Tuma’s majestic and crystalline arrangements and Laetitia’s silky voice. The results were so incredible that this story’s stars themselves have even decided to do it again.

After such a fruitful collaboration, Giorgio Tuma invited Laetitia Sadier to participate in the “Contronatura” festival in Lecce (Italy). The visit ended up cementing their friendship and they reached a sort of “agreement”, in which Giorgio would write a song for Laetitia’s album, and she would sing on a couple of songs from his new album.

Giorgio’s first idea was to write a reggae song, something different, something that stood out, that would be a change from Laetitia’s usual style. But at the time, Tuma and his regular musicians were recording the new album (of which we are already anxiously awaiting signs) and already had an instrumental version of “Release From The Centre Of Your Heart” prepared for Laetitia to sing. When she heard it, she loved it so much that she asked if it could be the song that she included on her own album. And so that is how this song came to be included on “Something Shines”, the amazing new album that Laetitia Sadier released on Drag City this past September 1^st. The version of this song included on the Laetitia’s album was recorded by Giorgio Tuma and his musicians in Italy with the indispensable assistance of Stefano Manca.

It is a wonder of dreamlike arrangements, where once again, sparks fly and create that intoxicating feeling amidst echoes of psychedelia and lounge melodies. We are impatient for that new Giorgio Tuma album, and for those new vocals that Laetitia Sadier will add to it.